also known as Ne toptat fashistskomu sapogu nashey rodiny

Fascist Boots on Our Homeland1941

FASCIST BOOTS ON OUR HOMELAND, made in the midst of the Second World War, is a stark animated short that portrays the Soviet Union as the last bulwark against the Nazi advance. In spite of the film’s grave historical ironies (“Fascism brings massive destruction, starvation and death to hundreds of thousands and millions of people!”), its rhythmic rhetoric is characteristic of Soviet innovations in propaganda.

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Soviet propaganda of the best sort. The use of Prokovieff's score from "Alexander Nevsky" was a happy surprise, as well as historically appropriate. The graphics were exciting, This was made at a time when the outcome of the war was unknown. The Soviet Union was still reeling from the disasters of 1941--for which Stalin was responsible.

Americans refuse to accept the fact that it was those dirty Commies who defeated Hitler by breaking the back of the Wermacht. Our role was more to divert the